requirements

On Sunday morning, my pastor preached a wonderful message. It was about women and their relationships with their husbands, but towards the end he talked to those of us who are not yet married but are approaching marriagable age. He said that we should not be concerned with looks or whether or not they meet all those little requirements that we have that aren't important, but that we should be more concerned that they have a close relationship with God. He told us that if they didn't have that, then even if they met all our requirements it wouldn't matter, because if they don't have a close relationship with God the marriage wouldn't work.

I've heard messages like this before, but they always just seemed to concentrate on the fact that our future spouse needs to be saved. I know that it's very important to have a spouse that's saved, so I'm not downplaying the importance of preaching on that, but that seems like that's all that a young person is told about qualities that thay should look for, like having a close relationship with God, being a leader (if your a girl looking for a guy), etc.

Well, I've rambled on long enough now. Just thought I'd share my thoughts about that subject.

Puppies!

We have some new members of our family. Actually, we've had them for quite a while now, I just haven't gotten on here to post pictures. I tend to forget about my blog a lot. :( They're six weeks old now. You can see pictures on my shutterfly account, ohio2carolina.shutterfly.com.

Yikes!

I didn't realize that it's been so long since I've posted on here. I guess probably cause there's been nothing to tell, except for the fact that once again we've switched churches. There really wasn't anything for us to do at Newark Bible Church, and we really want to be able to serve in the church that we go to, so we decided to go to New Lexington Bible Church instead. It's still pretty small, only about 40 people at the most, but there's plenty of area's to serve. We're going to be doing the nursing home service next week. I'm excited about that. Well, that's pretty much all for right now. Cole's birthday [party is on Saturday, so I'll probably post more(with pictures) after that.